Hester

“The old white men who run this country are scared. And people do stupid, ugly things when they’re scared.” She leaned close. “But they’re counting on their power and our fear.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“We must respect that silence and make our decisions and judgments based upon science and fact and simple old-fashioned common sense—a commodity absent for too long from those in governmental elevatia, where its employ would do us all much good.”
― Mark Dunn, Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in Letters

“As is true of most men who wield their power like a weapon, Conkling was widely feared, slavishly obeyed, and secretly despised.”
― Candice Millard, Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President

“A ship there is and she sails the sea, She’s loaded deep as deep can be, But not so deep as the love I’m in I know not if I sink or swim. The water is wide, I cannot get o’er it And neither have I wings to fly Give me a boat that will carry two And both shall row, my Love and I.”
― Alice Hoffman, Magic Lessons